A surrealist portrait in which the figure exists simultaneously in two states: rendered in colour from the waist up and in monochrome below, the transition at the hip line blurred enough to be uncertain rather than sharp. The figure looks directly at the viewer with an expression that offers nothing.
Acrylic was chosen because the fast drying time allowed the two zones to be built up independently without risk of them blending across the boundary at the transition. The background was unified in a single warm mid-tone.
About the artist
Maria Florescu's paintings are records of specific places at specific times of day — not idealised landscapes but faithful witnesses to the light as it actually fell on a particular morning, a particular field, a particular bend in the river. She works on location first, completing canvases in the studio with plein air notes close at hand.
She is based in Iași and exhibits across eastern Romania. Her gouache studies are made as standalone works, not preparatory sketches — small, immediate, made while waiting for the light to settle before the large canvas begins. She accepts commissions and is willing to paint locations of personal significance to clients.
